Gobi Desert in Asia

Ethiopia wasnt colonized and thus created its own borders. Still a lot of regions have independence movements. Eritrea already seceded and Tigray, Oromo and Somali regions have independence movements. Why havent they intergrated these regions?

Sounds silly but since I grew up near the beach and ocean, I’ve always dreamed of being in a forest so beautiful/unique it was like being transported into a fairytale. Are there any forests in real life you’ve been to that give you that feel?

5,000-6,000 years ago the Sahara was mostly green and it got turned into a desert by climate change, but shouldn't it be like the southern Sahara or inland Australia? how did it get turned into a sand desert?

Sand is crushed rock, and rock can be crushed from sea waves to tectonic movements, but the ergs haven't been touched by water since millennias, and 5,000 years is a very very short period of time for any continental level stuff like to happen.

all I can think about now is wind, either breaking down rocks by pressure or carrying over all the sand from somewhere else, but even these scenarios don't sound plausible because tornado alley should've turned into the biggest sand desert by now if it was that simple,

does anyone know the actual reason?

It seems like the perfect place for a maritime city, what's the reason a major city never developed there? Mountains, soil, coast, geopolitics, or other reasons?

The western parts are the known concrete jungle. But the eastern parts towards Penteli Mount are pronouncedly greener, and it's very, very visible even from afar.

just looks really out of place compared with the surrounding geography

Britain and France basically drew a narrow strip around a river just to split up territory. Because of this, Senegal is awkwardly wrapped entirely around another country. It completely splits up the local Wolof and Jola peoples, ruins West African trade, and makes travel an absolute nightmare. It’s easily one of the most poorly conceived colonial borders out there. Poor sandwiched Gambia…

How are there 'spits' going in both directions along the Cheleken peninsula?

What led to the shape of the island in the South?

Ive always sort of been kinda confused on this. Whats the definitive way of ordering ”twin” countries like the Congos? Some people would say the DRC goes first and then Congo because of the prefixes Democratic Republic being before Republic. But others would say Congo goes before DRC because the DRC’s short name is the DRC while the Rep of Congo’s short name is “Congo” and C comes before D.

Idk this has just been rummaging in my head for no reason and Ive just been needing an answer to this pointless question

The spacing between the lines seem a bit to even to not be man made, but I would assume they were naturally formed.

I’ve looked for their names online but I can’t seem to find them, if they have names that is

Hello, I finished this map of Costa Rica’s geographical role as a key link in the continental corridor connecting North and South America. Costa Rica sits right in the middle of the jaguar’s range, acting like a vital bridge for conservation across latin america. It’s really cool to see how geography shapes wildlife survival. Feedbacks are welcome and I hope you enjoy!

If you were to divide California into 4 roughly equal strips of area, a hefty majority of its 39 million residents live in the southernmost strip containing the LA+San Diego metro areas, with nearly half of the state (~47%) living in the Greater LA metro area alone. If it were its own state, Southern California, with primarily just LA and San Diego metro areas, would compete with Florida for title of 2nd most populous US state.

The SF Bay Area, Sacramento, Monterrey, Fresno, and most of the Central Valley and put together are short of SoCal by over 9 million residents, but on its own this area would compete with Illinois for title of 6th largest state.

The strip sandwiched between Southern California and the Bay Area, containing Bakersfield plus other farming towns in the Southern Central Valley and most of the towns of the Central Coast, has about more people than Utah or Connecticut.

Suprisingly, despite how empty it can feel, there are still over a million people still live in the strip of CA north of Sacramento, containing about as much people as Hawaii and New Hampshire, albeit of a larger area.

Ultimately, one way to better understand the scale and density of California, is to conceptualize it as Florida + Illinois + Utah + Hawaii, all packaged in one single state under one single state government

There is also great geographical diversity, ranging from the hottest to the coldest regions. It is also hard to imagine that, despite India and China being neighbors and the two most populous nations, the people of the two countries look strikingly different.